Raven Highgate is a 16-year-old teenager of incomparable beauty, intelligence, and physical prowess. She can have any boy she wants. But will not commit. Belong to any popular high school clique. But she doesn’t bother. Raven moves from high school to high school, like a gunslinger with a shady past. Never making a lasting friendship.
Raven is cool. She rides a Kawasaki. And her musical tastes are vast: ranging from classical jazz, to rock n roll, from punk to hip hop. She works in a vinyl record store. You would think that with her “retro style” Raven would fit right into the hipster scene, say from Portland. But she doesn’t. Raven is a loner.
It is not the sort of loneliness that comes from being a teenager—an ugly duckling. For high school boys will invariably fall madly in love with her. And accordingly, her female classmates will totally despise her. But no one will bully her, or they will get their asses kicked! No Raven’s loneliness comes from something entirely different – not from teenage angst – but from being a vampire!
One day Raven’s pattern of living in the shadows is put to good use when she accepts a cop’s offer of going undercover to catch a murderer. Mack is the cop who makes her an offer that “she can’t refuse”. Mack is also a woman living in a shadowy past. She gets the “dark side of life” only too well!